No person regardless of skin color should ever go through what slaves went through. To imagine how his aunt felt is unbearable, it is sad to think about the unnecessary misery many slaves went through. He may have owned them, but did not care about them, he could do what he pleased, and there was no law prohibiting that. This explains how their master had no heart or empathy for what he was destroying or who he was harming. Douglass had no knowledge of where and when his mother was buried.Īnother way Douglass uses parallelism is when he says, “No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose”. No mother wanted to give up their child, but they were forcefully separated. Children were also not allowed to attend their mother’s burial and show respect. This is one way that Douglass shows why slavery should be abolished mothers could not care for their own children. Frederick Douglass uses parallelism when saying “I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial”.
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